High Wood reference request

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High Wood reference request

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Post by Attrition » 15 Sep 2014, 20:42

22/23 July: 51st Division

Sergeant Bill Hay of the 1/9th Battalion, Royal Scots, described the attack,

That was a stupid action, because we had to make a frontal attack on bristling German guns and there was no shelter at all.... There were dead bodies all over the place where previous battalions and regiments had taken part in previous attacks. What a bashing we got. There were heaps of men everywhere–not one or two men, but heaps of men, all dead. Even before we went over, we knew this was death. We just couldn't take High Wood against machine-guns. It was ridiculous. There was no need for it. It was just absolute slaughter.

I don't suppose anyone knows the book and page do they please?

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